全球南方的性别与环境:从“妇女、环境与发展”到女性主义政治生态学

Gender and Environment in the Global South: From “Women, Environment, and Development” to Feminist Political Ecology

一些环境与发展领域内从事女性主义和性别研究的学者在阐释性别、气候变化及灾害时,仍然维系了单轴性思路及本质主义倾向,而这正是20世纪90年代以来“妇女、环境、发展”议题内的一些言论为人所诟病之处。女性主义政治生态学的力量在于能够使女性主义参与生态政治,一方面并不规避权力运作,另一方面也不依赖“本质”,无须假定先天的性别身份和历史之外的自然秩序。女性主义政治生态学的交叠性理论框架提供了精细的、实干的和境遇化的研究,其对情感和具身化认知的理解,能够规避普遍性和有关新自由主义增长及科学真理的宏大叙事的短板。

Some feminists and gender advocates working in the environment and development field have stuck to a single-axis approach when they study gender, climate change, and disasters which criticism has been leveled at since the 1990s. The strength of feminist political ecology (FPE) lies in its possibilities for feminist engagements in ecopolitics without avoiding the workings of power or relying on‘essences’ that assume pre-given gender identities and a natural order outside history. The intersectional frame of FPE offers nuanced, grounded, and situated research and understandings of emotions and embodied knowing that avoids the shortcomings of universalism and the grand narratives of neoliberal growth and scientific truth.